Movie Review
(Posted on: February 27, 2009)
Movies with titles that have an interrogative drift are always troublesome ones. The central question is usually dodged around by the director, and when answered, is answered in only an oblique way. However, ‘Kisse Pyaar Karoon’ is a movie with a difference! It answers the question its title poses in a very direct manner. If the central question of the movie is whom to love, the answer is clear, none at all. Through all of two and a half hours, director Ajay Chandok fails to develop or give substance to any of the characters, and the poor storyline hardly helps him.
‘Kisse Pyaar Karoon’ is the last of Ajay Chandok’s bag of hilarious slapsticks. However, unlike some of his earlier movies like Jodi No. 1 and Chal Mere Bhai, the magic fails to work here. The plot is thin, the twists are hardly twists - as you already know what to expect, and the treatment of important moments in the storyline are sloppy. To top it all, there is a weak screenplay, and you cannot even imagine a successful comedy out of a weak screenplay.
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With a star cast that includes Arshad Warsi, Ashish Vidyarthi, Yash Tonk and Shakti Kapoor, not to mention Udita Goswami and Aarti Chabaria, who have done well in the recent years and Shweta Menon supplying the oomph factor, a nice time is the least one expects. In fact, few expect more than that. However, this film loses itself out on that count as well. Events happen either too fast or simply out of the blue without any prior anticipation or necessary follow-up, and narrative strands get picked up and then left alone to sink without a trace. All these things happen largely because of the confused and thin storyline.
The plot of ‘Kisse Pyaar Karoon’ revolves around three friends, Siddhart, Amit and John. John is in love with Natasha (Aarti Chabaria), his classmate in college, but never musters up the courage to tell her so. Natasha, however, has her nose high up in the air, and leaves with her family for a world tour. John suffers from a serious heartbreak and all the attempts his friends take to cure him, fail. Finally, however, Sheetal (Udita Goswami) catches his attention, and in a moment he is somehow cured of his perpetual blues.
Sheetal appears reluctant at first, but in the very next minute accepts him, again for no rational reason! As soon as she accepts him and arranges for staying together at her palatial home, she embarks in a hate campaign against his friends, and tries to separate John from Sid and Amit and make him dance to her tunes. So much so, that John promptly shows his willingness to forget his long time friends for Natasha. A few song and dance sequences take place in between!
As it turns out, we find that there was a motif behind the madness. Shakti Kapoor, an underworld don of some sort who uses the name of AK 47 to identify himself, has planted Sheetal as a bait to lay claim on the business of John’s father, and use it to satisfy his dark ambitions. However, even after John’s father is killed soon after, that too after disowning John from the business in fury, the bait continues to remain for some unexplained reason! In the mean time, the friends carry on with their business of winning back their friend’s love and freeing him from the lure of Sheetal, who by now has complete control on his mind and body.
As they run out of ideas, Natasha returns from nowhere, and confesses that she was always in love with John but was too shy to tell him so! She also tells them that she is planning to fly to the US for her higher studies. The friends plan to use her to win John back. Sheetal immediately dumps all her educational ambition for this project! As this plan appears to fail as well, Sheetal is kidnapped by the friends as the last desperate move. In the midst of all this, we get a few more songs and dances! John is now in love with Natasha and believes Sheetal to be dead, who is actually taken hostage by Amit and Sid, under the mentorship of a certain Munnabhai (Ashish Vidyarthi). After long painful minutes of putting up with this narrative madness, we reach the climax, which becomes a virtual free for all. The bad guy Shakti Kapoor along with his cronies get beaten up, Natasha gets married to John, Sheetal to Sid, and Amit gets to win the hand of a prostitute (Shweta Menon) whom he once hired to break John’s melancholy.
Nothing much remains to say on a movie with a storyline like this, except that the actors tried their best to breathe life to an abominably weak plot and a weaker screenplay. Arshad as Sid, Aashish Chaudhury as John and Yash Tonk as Amit tried to bring about lots of energy to the movie. Ashish Vidyarthi and Shakti Kapoor went underutilized. However, somewhere even the best of their attempts fell short. The director allowed the plot to go haywire, with no rigor or purpose. Cinematography was stylish, and the song sequences were well picturized, but the choreography of the dance sequences was poor. Costumes were nothing special, except at places when they were visibly painful. Editing and music were mediocre, except that the background music was remarkably pathetic. There was too much of slapstick, too much of mock fights with booming sound effects, too much of cartoon-like cat and mouse chase. The final verdict – life is precious, as is money, so spend them wisely and judiciously.
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